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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine."

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Ang Lee Director, Producer
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"It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated."

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Ricky Jay Magician
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"I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested."

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Henry James Author
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"Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way."

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"We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work."

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there."

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Activist, Author
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"The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive."

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T. E. Lawrence Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer
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"The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more."

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
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"Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions."

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